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Flea et al.
I've hoped to find a tool to put a Dell BIOS back into service mode for at least a decade.
I have to say I think the last one the old Dell SVS Tag utility worked for was the D600.
Can I use this patcher on anything locked or not, regardless of the suffix?
If not, would changing those hex strings in the method described work on a wide range of current Dell boards (say 7th Gen CPU and newer?)
What would be absolutely fantastic is if I could make a generic or model-based flash utility to revert the BIOS to service mode like we could with the old TR4 BIOS back in the Latitude CP days.
I think Dell figured out we could turn a P166 CP into a PII 400 CpiA Clone with that BIOS and the proper CPU swap!
Those were the days.
Of course, I have a Latitude 5500 with a locked 8FC8 Bios, or I wouldn't be here.
and somebody will help you...
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Flea et al.
I've hoped to find a tool to put a Dell BIOS back into service mode for at least a decade.
I have to say I think the last one the old Dell SVS Tag utility worked for was the D600.
Can I use this patcher on anything locked or not, regardless of the suffix?
If not, would changing those hex strings in the method described work on a wide range of current Dell boards (say 7th Gen CPU and newer?)
What would be absolutely fantastic is if I could make a generic or model-based flash utility to revert the BIOS to service mode like we could with the old TR4 BIOS back in the Latitude CP days.
I think Dell figured out we could turn a P166 CP into a PII 400 CpiA Clone with that BIOS and the proper CPU swap!
Those were the days.
Of course, I have a Latitude 5500 with a locked 8FC8 Bios, or I wouldn't be here.Leave a comment:
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Also read this thread
BIOS guides, methods, resources and tools
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...rces-and-toolsLeave a comment:
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Good morning. I have one question: for this method to work I understand I need a Bios "dump".
Are "dump" and "Backup" the same thing?
Do I need a chip programmer to create dumps and/or backups or is there any procedure to execute the dump/backup and upload the patched ones with no additional hardware and no need to open the laptop?
Thank you very much and apologies for the dummy questions, but I couldn't find the answers anywhere.
Thx,
P.
A dump is a file created after reading data from a chip with chip reader/writer (programmer).
A backup is a file created for data you don't want to lose....can be a dump from a chip or can be a zip file containing a dump from a chip.
...and yes 100% you need to open the laptop for this work.
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Good morning. I have one question: for this method to work I understand I need a Bios "dump".
Are "dump" and "Backup" the same thing?
Do I need a chip programmer to create dumps and/or backups or is there any procedure to execute the dump/backup and upload the patched ones with no additional hardware and no need to open the laptop?
Thank you very much and apologies for the dummy questions, but I couldn't find the answers anywhere.
Thx,
P.Leave a comment:
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I see that the script takes the region from 0x1000 with a length of 0x100000, which when analyzed by the UEFITool is the padding after the Descriptor region.
Then you are searching for "00 FC AA" and replacing it with "00 FC 00"
The script does it again for "00 FD AA" and replacing it with "00 FD 00"Leave a comment:
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Read the whole thread and you`ll find out why there is no link anymore,for the time being. -
It isn`t the purpose of this thread. When you have made a bios backup post your request in the latitude 3510 thread -> https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...admin-password -
Hi there, im currently trying to fix my latitude 3510 locked with admin password. No 8fc8 keygen available at the moment. Could someone lead me to a video where I could learn how to edit the scrip and what to do with it in order to put the bios in factory mode ? Some guys on YouTube put themselves in so much trouble removing the chip and programming it externally. That's not the purpose of this thread right ? Thanks a lot, cordially.Leave a comment:
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